SQL is to data as DRAM is to compute. It's the thing most-fit for the job. We're...

linuxftw on Nov 8, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Modern Data Practice and the SQL Tradition

SQL is to data as DRAM is to compute. It's the thing most-fit for the job. We're unlikely to invent some new way to do those tasks, perhaps refine them, but fundamentally, they are the best-fit.

SQL wasn't so much invented as it was discovered.